Usually means: Provides essential nutrients to organisms.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Nutritive:

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  1. nutritive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nutritive: Merriam-Webster
  3. nutritive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nutritive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nutritive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nutritive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nutritive, nutritive: Wordnik
  8. nutritive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nutritive: Wiktionary
  10. nutritive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nutritive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nutritive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nutritive: Dictionary.com
  14. nutritive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nutritive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nutritive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nutritive: Rhymezone
  18. Nutritive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nutritive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. nutritive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. nutritive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. nutritive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nutritive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nutritive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. nutritive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nutritive)

▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to nutrition.
▸ adjective:  Nourishing, providing nutrition.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A nutrient.

Similar:
alimentary, nutritious, nutrient, nourishing, wholesome, nutritional, nutritory, nutritial, trophic, alimentous, more...

Opposite:
non-nutritive, unhealthy, empty, devoid, insubstantial

Types:
vitamin, mineral, protein, carbohydrate, fat, water, more...

Phrases:
nutritive value, nutritive ratio, nutritive plasma, nutritive polyp, basic nutritive medium, more...

Adjectives:
more, non, least, inert, special

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    green,     brown,     beige,     olive,     mustard, more...

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Similar:
alimentary, nutritious, nutrient, nourishing, wholesome, nutritional, nutritory, nutritial, trophic, alimentous, more...

Opposite:
non-nutritive, unhealthy, empty, devoid, insubstantial

Types:
vitamin, mineral, protein, carbohydrate, fat, water, more...

Phrases:
nutritive value, nutritive ratio, nutritive plasma, nutritive polyp, basic nutritive medium, nutritive i's, nutritive is, non nutritive sweetener, more...

Adjectives:
more, non, least, inert, special

Colors:
    green,     brown,     beige,     olive,     mustard, more...



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